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Show Notes

Introduction:

• James Inhoffe’s Snowball
• Olive lives a hard life.

Feedback:

• “Pathways with friends” and “When Cells Don’t Communicate” are both from Learn Genetics.
• Andersen Family Bad Lip Reading
• Piktochart has great free infographic option.
• David’s AP Biology Summer Assignment
• Paul’s AP Biology Summer Assignment

Teacher Hacks:

• Sidney B. uses Diigo to maximal effect.
• Skitch makes screenshot markup easy, as does Awesome Screenshot.
• TabCloud is handy for repetitive tab combinations.

Sponsorship:

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• “Mile of Pi” by Numberphile

This Week's Topic: Dead Educational Ideas

1. Learning styles questionnaires which help kids only to box themselves in and set false limits with learning styles labels. -Josh T

• Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence

2. Subject superiority- the notion that some subjects are better than other subjects -David K.

3. The idea that teachers have to always lecture and students have to sit and listen. -Meg T. That lecture is EVIL! there is a place for direct instruction...Especially when something totally new is introduced. -Elisa C. lecture only classes must die. Learn by doing is infinitely more effective. -Ryan D

4. That all students should be college ready -Lee F.

5. That Cell phones are bad -Jake R.

• “Her”

6. Standardized tests -David O.

7. That only men make great discoveries and are important in history. -Elizabeth C.

• “A People’s History of Science”

8. Also, that Finland is the BEST for education. Hello homogeneous population in the classroom. -Kelly O.

• Finland is doing away with teaching by subject.

9. That homework is essential (except maybe in math and foreign language) -Kelly O.

10. Grade inflation! Grades in general, but also the idea that effort = you pass instead of knowing concepts = you pass. -Caryn D.

• The importance of narrative feedback.

TWIL:

• The US gets a total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017
• The HTML5 Drum Machine will help you spend/waste your time.
• The Artiphon Instrument 1 is intriguing.
• Paul’s “Pi Beat"